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STEEL ADMIRAL - IMO 6117667
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Photographer:gwrdave [ View profile ]
Captured:Jan 1, 1973
Title:Steel Admiral
Location:Panama Canal, Panama
Photo Category:General Cargo Ships Built 1940-1949 (over 3000gt)
Added:Jan 10, 2015
Views:1,395
Image Resolution:2,000 x 1,366
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Launched as Sea Angler
Commissioned: 15 September 1944 as USS Cecil.
USS Cecil (APA-96) was a Bayfield class attack transport.
Type C3-S-A2.
Decommissioned 1946 and renamed Cecil
1948 Steel Admiral-Isthmian Steamship Company.
General Electric geared turbine, 2 x Babcock & Wilcox D-type boilers, single propeller, designed shaft horsepower 8,500.
Builder: Western Pipe & Steel, Maryland.Yard# 121
BU: KAOHSIUNG 1973/10/18
Transiting Gatum Lake, Panama Canal.
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IMO:6117667
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Note the deep draft. Photographed in the Gatun Lake, which is fresh water. The ship would ride a few inches higher out of the water once she got back out into salt water.
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Superb in all respects.
Regards, Rick
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Allan
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